Re: Feeling better on iron supplements but.....

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Hi Harry

When it comes to hypothyroid disease that statement below is absolutely crap. We are not trying to get our ferritin that high. We only want it 90 tops. If we see it higher than 250 without supps we start to get worried. We are advised to go and get tested for hemochromatosis. High iron can damage your thyroid but 90 is not high.

My nephew who is only 2 years old and has learning difficulties and he seems to have some autistic traits. Had a iron level of 6 and ferritin 9. Now his ferritin is up to 24. Are those biochemist friends of yours seriously going to say that he should not be on iron supps. His tsh is 4 so he already has thyroid problems.

I would be very surprised if you found a person who had iron overload with a ferritin of 90.

My sister who is pregnant and taking iron supps. Her ferritin has dropped down to 15. Now is that safe for the baby and her absolutely not.

That iron group should go and get all there thyroids tested and going by the stop the thyroid madness, See if they have thyroid problem.

Harry you can do what they suggest and stop that iron. And they will see their friend (you) slowly getting sicker and sicker. They can be there holding your hand while you are on your deathbed because you are so hypo.

Sorry to be so graphic. But they are just like the doctors that have told all of us that there is nothing wrong with our thyroids.

I would tell them to get stuffed. Your feeling better and thats what matters. If you have good thyroid function you just do not have low ferritin.

Sky

To: RT3_T3 Sent: Thu, 4 February, 2010 7:05:30 AMSubject: Feeling better on iron supplements but.....

>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Their brains are strongly overloaded with iron. One patent client had strokes, and his SF is about 250 so he went to have it lowered. This was at the most advanced place in Stuttgart, and the doctor told him that the normal range goes from 30 to 350 so he was totally in the green range and there was no need to treat.!!!!!! !!!!! At that clinic, he met a woman with an SF of 5000 (five thousand) who was being treated, indeed.The thyroid certainly needs iron to function, much as it needs selenium, iodine etc, but in small quantities. My thyroid was totally out of function about 30 years ago so I needed four grains of thyroid each day. At that time, I underwent chelation treatment for iron overload, and I got palpitations so I cut down on thyroid pills and eventually could stop them altogether, to this day. I still have two bottles with the 2 grains

pills.In the US, there is iron fortification. In fertile women, this drives up SF by 3 ng/mL per year on average, and in men of the same age group, the value is 4 ng/mL. This is because men do not menstruate, but they may of course lose iron via bleeding hemorrhoids which has the same effect. Iron goes into the walls of the arteries and veins and gives a blue color to the veins which may be observed on the underarms and in the skin above the eyes, also at the ankles. The distribution of iron in the body is uneven, and it might get in short supply at some places.But this iron craze in hypothyroid people has a lot to do with their being conditioned to regard iron as a wonderful thing of which one can never have too much. We just got a new grandson, at term, good weight etc and drinking heavily. Like in most newborns, his head is red from iron overload, and mother's milk contains a chelator for iron named lactoferrin, so within a few

months, his iron will be lowered to normal on his diet of mother's milk.But in the US, formula for babies does not contain lactoferrin - it contains iron (just for sales reasons) and one tells the young mothers that this iron is wonderful for your baby. My wife read the same story to me from a German journal where they recommmended 8 milligrams of iron per day for a baby. (This would be a good dose for an adult without hemochromatosis. ) No wonder they get autism - one third of autistic children have very high iron values.As to your patient, an SF of 58 already is in plaque country. There is no point in raising it. In my iron group, there are some highly intelligent women who keep their iron in a low range of about 20 and claim that this is where they are feeling best. It may differ a bit from person to person, but I think ten to forty is where we are going to settle in 50 or 100 years. (These values are highly

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